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Issue: The Thing #9 Public Domain
Publication Date: July 1953
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Issues: #9 of 17 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagCharlton
Brand: A Capitol PublicationView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Capitol Stories, Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 6 (5 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Alfred V. Fago
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Silver Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing
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Some/all of Issue reprinted as 2 Content Items in other Issues:
FlagDoomsday #4 published August 1972 as Mardu's Masterpiece [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagDoomsday #5 published October 1972 as Operation Massacre [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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The Thing

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Bob Forgione (signed)
Inker(s): Bob Forgione
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Mardu's Masterpiece

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Carl Memling
Penciller(s): Bob Forgione (signed)
Inker(s): Bob Forgione
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: Etienne Mardu, Parisian art painter, gains success by painting with blood. First his own, then his models'. But the magic canvases come to life and put an end to Mardu's grisly career.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Writer ID by Martin O'Hearn.
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The Road to Madness

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Carl Memling
Penciller(s): Bob Forgione (signed)
Inker(s): Vince Alascia (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: The sadistic and ruthless collector of gems, Francisco de Cobra, hears about the world's largest diamond. He travels to the Amazonian jungles to get his hands on the item - and murders all his companions while he's at it.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
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The Skull Stretchers

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: A party of soldiers is annihilated by head-hunting natives while trekking through the African jungle.
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Pages: 2
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Operation Massacre

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Carl Memling
Penciller(s): John Belfi (signed)
Inker(s): John Belfi
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: Madman Marko controls an army of robots by pure thought. On his way to world domination he makes one fatal mistake.
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Pages: 6
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The Dead Man's Hand

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Carl Memling
Penciller(s): Bob Forgione (signed)
Inker(s): Bob Forgione
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: A cruel master pianist is killed by his wife and her lover. The maestro's hand however returns and strangles every single soul in the household.
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Pages: 8

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